healthy foods

It has been a long time since I shared a recipe on FitEyes.com. My last recipe was Ayurvedic Pizza. Today I made cornbread for the first time in my adult life. As usual, I created my own recipe and gave it an Ayurvedic slant.

Ingredients:

By Joel Salatin, Public Affairs Books
Posted on June 20, 2009, Printed on June 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/140477/

Excerpted by permission from "Declare Your Independence" by Joel Salatin, part of the book Food, Inc., available now from PublicAffairs. Copyright 2009.

Here is an interesting article on HuffingtonPost

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_2...

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine President Dr. Neal Barnard says in his book, The Power of Your Plate, in which he explains that "early humans had diets very much like other great apes, which is to say a largely plant-based diet, drawing on foods we can pick with our hands. Research suggests that meat-eating probably began by scavenging--eating the leftovers that carnivores had left behind. However, our bodies have never adapted to it. To this day, meat-eaters have a higher incidence of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other problems."

Americans consume about 5 billion hamburgers a year. It is presumed that most hamburgers are Abstract composed primarily of meat. The purpose of this study is to assess the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands using histologic methods. Eight different brands of hamburgers were evaluated for water content by weight and microscopically for recognizable tissue types.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) staining was used to evaluate for brain tissue. Water content by weight ranged from 37.7% to 62.4% (mean, 49%).

Cut your glaucoma risk by 60 percent by eating one serving a month of kale and collard greens or two or more servings a week of carrots.

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=21287

Spilling the Beans, May 2009

Is there such a thing as Ayurvedic Pizza? Today I undertook to make a Kapha-balancing Pizza and it turned out wonderful. Here's the story.

From USA Today:

Some of your favorite foods may be fakes.

According to nutritionist Paavo Airola, we should not eat potatoes that have any green tint and he mentioned a toxin called solanine (a nerve toxin) as the reason why. Potatoes often develop this green tint after exposure to light in the supermarket, but farming and harvesting practices play a role as well.

Here is another healthy recipe featuring foods that health the eyes. This is a pasta dish with healthy vegetables in lieu of tomato sauce. (You can actually add some tomato sauce to it if you wish and the taste is good. I prefer it without tomatoes myself.)

Vegetables (all organic):

I experimented with a new recipe today. This is a healthy recipe with many of my favorite healing foods for the eyes.

Topping (all organic):

Amagase H, Nance DM: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled,
clinical study of the general effects of a standardized Lycium barbarum
(Goji) Juice, GoChi. J Altern Complement Med 2008;14:403-412.

BACKGROUND: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
is the first study reported outside China that has examined the effects of
the orally consumed goji berry, Lycium barbarum, as a standardized juice
(GoChi; FreeLife International LLC, Phoenix, AZ) to healthy adults for 14
days.

I'm reading an article from 2007 on the New York Times Magazine website. It is a long article. I'm on page 3 of 12 right now. But I am finding it so interesting that I want to let everyone know about it. Here is the link to the easy to read version.

 I have an interest in krill oil because it is high in certain carotenoids as well as supplying DHA and EPA. We know DHA and carotenoids are important for vision. However, I prefer not to take supplemental carotenoids in their common form. The following conclusion echoes my concern about taking any isolated carotenoids such as lutein.

Here are some of my top food recommendations for fit eyes and great vision: